Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-06-30

The floods in Hungary are subsiding.
There Is great distress among the inhabi-
tants of the undated regions. Fifteen hun
dred farmers are totally ruined, and the
entire damage is estimated at $ 5000, 900.
The Halifax Herald says 'tbe United
States constitution is a most cumbrous
and complicated piece OF mechanism"
Sir John Macdonald will visit England
in July.
The Swedes OF Chicago will put Up $50,
600 monumental Lipnieus, the botanist.
Several of the tenants arrested at
Bodvke, Ireland. for resisting the officers
sent to eyiet them nave been sentenced to
prison at hard labor for terms ranging
from one to three months. Alter being
sentenced they were taken to Ennis sta
tion Under a heavy escort OF police.
Crowds OF sympathizers gathered and be,
came so demonstrative that the police
were ordered to disburse them. This they
did with a will, and piled their batons so
vigorously that several OF the people were
everely injured.
l.. c. Tatum OF Cincinnati is dead. Mr..
Tatum was a Cincinnati capitalist, and
was well known to most OF the business
men of st. Paul by reason of his frequent
aud prolonged visits to this city to look
after his property interest.
Benjamin +. Potts, governor OF Mon.
tana from 1870 to 1883, died Mt his resi-
dence in Helena OF auerism. Besides his
long and honorable services as governor OF
this territory, he served with great dis.
tinction throughout the war.
Judge A. G. Lochrane died at Atlanta.
Ca, recently from heart disease. lie
was fifty.eight years old, and cana here
from Ireland when a poor boy. He went
south, and was finally appointed a judge
OF the circuit court. Later on he was ap-
pointed ehief Justice Of the supreme court.
The Chicago 4 Northwestern railroad
depot at Doland, Oak, was totally de-
stroled by fre.
The Wisconsin Central fled article OF in.
corporation at Madison, consolidating
under the management OF one mpa
all the roads and branches OF the central
system heretofore existing under several
names. They aggregate ESQ miles OF road.
The capital stoeki is S15, 900, 600. OF which
$4,000, 900 is preferred stock.
A storm at Detroit. Mich, and vicinity,
injured crops and did some minor dam
ages.
The biggest nugget OF gold ever found In
Wisconsin was washed out on the 18th,
on the farm OF John Condit, one mile from
Rock Elm, Pierce county. 1t weighed nearly
sh III CCNttdi cliltI hlC HukLtlE
were found with it.
At Queenstown while examining the bag
gage OF a passenger named Peter Troy, ON
the steamer Adriatic from New York, the
customs officers found a box containing
explosives. Troy was arrested. He claim.
ed that the box had been given him by a
friend in America to take to his home near
Rosserea, and that the explosives were
harmless toy rockets.
The British police have iss ued a circular
warning chemists and other persons deal.
ng in explosive substances not to sell such
to suspicious persons. The government
has offered a reward OF f100 for informal
ton regarding the Illegal manufacture OF
dynamite.
The following is r. g. Dun q Co.'S weekly
review OF trade: It Is most encouraging
that two of the great specuIations by
which legitimite business has formerly
been embarrassed nave come to an end,
and without disaster to other parties save
those who had invited disaster. Arnold Il
Co. in coffee, Kersbaw 4 Co. in grain. with
the powerful combinations behind tRem
have broken. with a number OF smaller on.
orators, but and finances have
not been seriously disturbed.
At the jubilee procession Queen Victoria
viii ride in an open carriage decorated
with chocolate and gold and emblazoned
with the royal arms and crown.
1t is rumored that kilograms have been
received from London ordering the Indian
government TO forward troops to the All.
CHAN frontier.